Where are all the good games at?
 

In the mid to late 1990s we had:

Doom
Doom 2
Final Doom
The ultimate Doom
Duke Nukem
Quake 1
Quakeworld
QWTF, CTF, Painskeep.......
Diablo 1
Warcraft 2
C&C DOS edition
C&C Red Alert
Warcraft 2 beyond the dark portal
Quake 2
Half-life 1
Counter-Strike
Quake 3
Diablo 2
Diablo 2 Expansion

After the the year 2000:
Doom 3
Far Cry
Half-life 2
Counter Strike Source
Painkiller
Fortress-Forever


Maybe I am missing something here. The gaming community has not had a real game released in some time. Its as if the gaming revolution of the 1990s has faded away. In 1997 - 1999 I was waiting on several games to come out, now, I can not think of a single game that I am watching or waiting for.

Its as if the gaming world is drying up and fading away.

All the more recent games you listed are FPSes, and all the old games you mentioned are FPSes or RTSes (or close, like Diablo).

You need to broaden your horizons if you can't find any games you enjoy today. There are plenty out there, but if you stay locked in the same genres forever you're going to get burnt out.

You didn't mention Fear which I thought was great for it's atmosphere. The first game to truly startle me since Doom2. You also don't mention Generals, Zero Hour, Battlefield 2...Perhaps those weren't to your liking? I liked them.

I think there has been some slowdown in the productions of games. I think part of that is due to longer development cycles with the increased level of sophistication of games. I think that the ongoing maintenance of existing games takes up resources as well. I think that the continued push towards consoles has hurt the availability of development talent for games. We've also seen a number of developers either go out of business or end up being acquired by larger entities. Look at "The Borg of Gaming Companies", EA...how many companies has it swallowed up?

Where is your Bioshock, your Resident Evil 4, your Crysis?
What about Portal, and Gears of War?
There are a LOT of games, you're just overlooking them.

Portal
Oblivion
Rainbow Six Vegas
Full Spectrum Warrior
Battlefield 2
Guild Wars

etc. etc.

Kev, if you spent less time hunting up snakes to shoot you might be aware of these things. :-P :lol:

my pc list would be:

tfc
bf2
cod4
maybe cs

single player agmes are boring so they don't count.

I agree with #4.

I just beat BioShock. It don't get to be on no lists. Neither do the others.

Again, agreeing with Portal. Not agreeing with Oblivion or Guild Wars, ain't played the rest.

I think our standards have simultaneously gone down and up.

How did I know you'd say that. Since FF isn't on your list, why are you here?

PC games only?

Bioshock will not run on my video card.

Portal is not a real game - I finished it in less then 4 hours.

And yes, I play PC games only.

I forgot a game called "Sacred" - its a RPG like diablo II. Sacred is a pretty good game, I might load it up and play.

Ok, you beat it in 4 hours. Did you enjoy those 4 hours? It got game of the year basically EVERYWHERE for a reason.

Oh, and those 4 hours don't include the commentary, extra levels, achievements and challenges, do they?

I've played sacred! the online game play is less than to be desired :( Brought it when it was brand new, I might actually go finish the single player :/

Where have all the cowboys gone?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA


(breathe)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Well there's...

Titan Quest
WC3
CoD4
AoE3
C&C Generals
Heroes 5
Might and Magic (the latest rocks many asses in single player)
Dark Age of Camelot
CoH/CoV
Guild Wars
WoW
World in Conflict
Sacred
Hellgate: London (once through)
Knights of the Old Republic
Sins of a Solar Empire

Just listing games I own that I have enjoyed.

I agree, good games!

credge..you played Knights..i have too. Love that game..how u set up the console in it??